Blogs
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #70: A Motorcycle With No One On It
Z is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Beautiful. Going nowhere.
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Meghan Daniels: The Last Book I Loved, Anna Karenina
Okay, so maybe most of you have already read this novel. Because it is a classic, because you went to college, because Oprah featured it on her book club. But if I’m not the only person in the world who…
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National Poetry Month, Day 14: “The Lion’s Mouth” by Randall Mann
The Lion’s Mouth I walk into a stanza. There’s decent gin here; the men are critically tanned in winter. The gin kicks in;
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Aporup Acharya: The Last Book I Loved, Ka
In India, and for Hindus, the myths are how we explained the world and everything in it. And from those first musings about the true nature of things came countless epics, sub-epics, stories, fables, philosophies and prescriptions that have teemed…
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The Last Book I Loved: Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Deborah Eisenberg’s Collected Stories just won this year’s PEN/Faulkner Award, and last year she received a MacArthur. If you’ve been following the buzz but haven’t yet discovered the pleasures of her work, now is the time. Start with Transactions in…
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National Poetry Month Day 13: “A Litany of Wants” by Neil de la Flor
A Litany of Wants I want to erase my name from this poem so I can write what I want to write. I want the two badass Brazilian guys in line to line up like erect oil slicks and pull…
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Timothy Donnelly
“…(at least in most cases) the writing of a poem is initiated by the articulation of a relatively vague idea or impulse, and the implications that emanate from that articulation in tandem with its sonic properties will guide the next…
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National Poetry Month Day 12: “Dear Empire” by Oliver de la Paz
Dear Empire, These are your murders. I’m not one to speak of atonement, given my sins are expressly for you. Given night’s easy wound and your own scar. Given the smell of old papers, the broken figurine you’ve placed on…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #82
CENTIPEDES ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing centipedes.
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National Poetry Month Day 11: “Sonnet to Ash Wednesday” by Noelle Kocot
Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s selection for the month of February. You can read Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s essay on why she chose the book here and you can read the Poetry Book Club’s chat with…
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THE LONELY VOICE #10: Two Boys Fighting, Omaha Nebraska
Two boys are fighting. Neither is especially interested in beating the other up but once these things start, sometimes you’ve got no choice but to go ahead with it.
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National Poetry Month Day 10: “Universal Translator” by Amy Letter
Universal Translator Universal Translator from Amy Letter on Vimeo. Science fiction stories set in an alien-rich future like to show the universe’s different species communicating seamlessly by means of (what in the Star Trek universe is called) a “Universal Translator.”